COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 13 APRIL 1910
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SENATE ELECTION
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VICTORIA (Three senators to be elected)
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Enrolled voters:                          703,699         +04.7
Votes cast:                               468,535   66.6  +09.9
Informal votes:                            21,414   04.6  -01.6
Formal votes:                             447,121   95.4  +01.6
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Candidate                      Party        Votes   %
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Stephen BARKER                 ALP        216,199   48.4  ELECTED 2
Hon Robert Best *              Lib        213,976   47.9
Albert BLAKEY                  ALP        215,117   48.1  ELECTED 3
Edward FINDLEY *               ALP        217,573   48.7  ELECTED 1
Vida Goldstein                             53,583   12.0
Hon James McCay                Lib        195,477   43.7
Hon James Ronald                           18,380   04.1
William Trenwith *             Lib        211,058   47.2
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Total                                   1,341,363
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1. Percentages shown are percentages of 447,118, indicating the 
proportion of voters who supported each candidate. The percentages 
column will thus add up to 300%, since each voter cast three votes.
2. McCay was MHR for Corinella 1901-06.
3. Ronald was MHR for Southern Melbourne 1901-06.
4. Trenwith had sat as an independent but had joined the Liberal 
Party in 1909.
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Senators' terms began 1 July 1910. Barker, Blakey and Findley 
elected for a term ending 30 June 1916. Continuing senators (term 
to end 30 June 1913): Hon Sir Simon FRASER (Lib), Hon James McCOLL 
(Lib), Edward RUSSELL (ALP).
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> Stephen Barker (1854-1924): Elected 1910
Born: 1854, London, England
Career: Primary education. Tailor. Migrated (date unknown). 
Organiser Tramways Union. Secretary Melbourne Trades Hall Council 
1901-10.
> Robert Wallace Best (1856-1946): Elected 1901. Defeated 1910 
Later career: See House of Representatives, Kooyong by-election 1910
Minister for Trade and Customs to 29 April 1910
> Albert Edward Howarth Blakey (1879-1935): Elected 1910
Born: 9 November 1879, Balmoral, Victoria
Career: Primary education. Clerk. Official Clerks Union.
> Edward Findley (1862-1947): Elected 1903, 1910
Minister without portflio from 29 April 1910
> Simon Fraser (1832-1913): Elected 1901, 1906
Fraser retired in 1913.
Died 30 July 1919
> James Hiers McColl (1844-1929): Elected 1906
> Edward John Russell (1879-1925): Elected 1906
> William Arthur Trenwith (1847-1925): Elected 1903. Defeated 1910
Died 26 July 1925
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